Re: NULL characters in file on ReiserFS again.

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
> 
> This happened to me yesterday on kernel-2.4.4-6mdk (Mandrake cooker, based
> on 2.4.4-ac14), single reiser root filesystem, mounted with default options.
> Hardware - ASUS CUSL2 (i815e chipset), Fujitsu UDMA-4 drive.
> 
> I tried to change hostname and did not have the corresponding entry in
> /etc/hosts (or anywhere). As a tesult, startx hung starting X server; it was
> not possible to switch to alpha console or kill X server. I pressed reset
> and after reboot looked into /var/log/XFree86*log - and there were a bunch
> of ^@ there.
> 
> I then run fsck from another system (installed on another partition) but
> there was no errors (well, new errors - there was off-by-one free blocks
> bitmap mismatch but it was always there, I do not know how to correct it). I
> tried the above once more but this time XFree log was O.K.
> 
> So, I really do not know how to reproduce it, but I wanted to give a warning
> that a problem still exists (albeit in emergency situation). As Reiser does
> not do any fsck after crash, the problem is serious enough IMHO.
> 
> -andrej
> 
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